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Journo Request

I don’t usually post anything personal in my newsletter, or least I haven’t for the past two years. But I have a #JournoRequest.

I have been writing a book for last six years. It’s called Between a Rock, a Hard Place and a Dystopia. And it is 90% finished and I have a deadline at the end of August. I've set up lots of interviews for the next three weeks and did one today in Kew Gardens.

📷 Samantha Asumadu, Kew Gardens

But I need some help getting to the finishing line.

Here's the description:

Between a Rock, a Hard Place and a Dystopia: Vignettes of a chaotic life, that straddle two worlds; the anti-imperialist black and browns and the socialist white left. A true story from the point of view of a reluctant journalist about class, love danger and mental health.

📷 Ron Fassbender, House of Lords, 2022

We'll meet some of the charistmatic characters that were founders of the nascent anti-imperialist movement in 2011 and on the other side of the gulf, the vanguard of the white left.

feat. Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper, Lowkey, Akala, Symeon Brown, Kojo Arbah, Malia Bouttia, Anthony Anaxagorou, Pablo Navarette, Robert Kazandjian, Daniel Renwick, Assed Baig, Owen Jones, Asa Winstanley, Aaron Bastani, Laurie Penny, James Butler, Mark Boothroyd, Shirin Shafaie, Harry Stopes, Malcolm Webb…

Seumas Milne, Lee Jasper, Daniel Trilling, Fatima Manji, Yomi Adegoke, Io Dodds, Kavita Bhanot, Chimene Suleyman, Nels Abbey, Fraser Nelson, Sunny Singh, Nikesh Shukla, Hicham Yezza, Sukant Chandan, Shareefa, Jody Mcintyre, Azad Ali and Assed Baig ..

Whilst it is a memoir, it's also the history of late noughties East Africa, and early to late 2010s London. Through my eyes. An era that shaped my world view and politics. Good and bad.